Portable dispenser unit



Nov. 19, 1946. J, MODARGH JR PORTABLE DISPENSER UNIT Filed April 7, 1944 INVENTOR. XaRRYJMfflMa/Me. W MM Patented Nov. 19, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PORTABLE DISPENSER UNIT Harry J. McDargh, J r., Atlanta, Ga. Application April 7, 1944, Serial No. 529,936

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, readily assembled, merchantable package for powdered materials, such as tooth powder, from which the contents may be readily extracted in appropriately measured quantities without waste and in such form as to be readily picked up by a tooth brush.

The accompanying drawing illustrates my invention.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the several parts of my improved package preliminary to assembly;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary cross-section of the delivery end of a completed and filled package with the parts in normal non-delivery position;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 with the parts in delivery position;

Fig. 4 is a diagram showing the initial handling position preliminary to presentation of a measured quantity of the contents of the package; and

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4 with the parts in position for extraction of a measured quantity of the contents.

In the drawing IO indicates the main body of my package which may preferably be formed of a single sheet of material bent or moulded to the illustrated shape and provided, adjacent it base, with a discharge opening II. The opposite sides of the U formed by the sheet Ill are closed by plates I3, I3, each provided at its lower end with a circular opening I4. ings I 4 are cylindrical trunnions I5, I5, forming parts of a cylindrical barrel I6 provided with an axially extending measuring pocket I! and also provided with a radially projecting stop finger I 8.

Arranged within the bight of sheet ID between the end walls I 3, I3 is a rectangular funnel I9 having inclined end and side walls so proportioned at its largest width and length as to contact the opposed sides of sheet I and the end walls I3 and with its end walls notched at their lower edges, as indicated at 20, to contact and fit the periphery of barrel I6.

The upper end of the package is closed by the top plate 22 which covers the opening formed by the upper ends of sheet I0 and end plates I3.

The parts may be made of any suitable light weight material, such as a relatively stiiT pulp board, sheet metal, or preferably, one of the cheaper plastics.

Barrel I6 having been placed in the bight of sheet I0, end plates I3 and funnel I9 are then positioned, and parts I0, I3 and I9 suitably secured together. The space between the upper end of sheet I0 and end wall I3 is then filled with the tooth powder and top plate 22 is fixed Journalled in the open- 2 Claims. (Cl. 222-126) in position, whereupon the package is ready for merchandising, the pocket I! of barrel I6 being aligned with the lower end of funnel I9 and sufiiciently held against accidental rotation of barrel I6 by the friction between the parts.

The ends of the trunnions I5 are so located that, in use, the user may grasp the main body of the package in one hand and engage the exposed ends of the trunnions I5 with the thumb and a finger of the other hand, as indicated in Fig. 4, thereupon swinging one hand relative to the other so as to rotate barrel I6 to bring pocket I1, with its contents, to an exposed position opposite opening II, as indicated in Figs. 3 an 5. The package may then be held in one hand while the brush 25 may be engaged by the hand which previously engaged trunnions I5 and used to extract the exposed powder from pocket II. Preferably, the exposed ends of trunnions I5 will lie flush with, or slightly projected beyond, the outer surfaces of the walls I3, I3.

A is clearly shown in Figs. 2" and 3, the stop pin I8 will engage the base of the body III in one extreme of relative movement of the parts, and will engage a side wall of the funnel I9 in the opposite extreme thereof.

I consider it quite desirable that the opening I I be located in the front or rear wall of the body I 0, and that the width of said opening be considerably less than ninety degrees of the arc of barrel I6, and substantially equal to the peripheral width of the mouth of the pocket H which, in turn, should be greater than the width of the mouth of the funnel l9. 2

By this arrangement, the user will have the main body of the package in substantially hori zontal position at the time of extraction of material from pocket I! and if he is careless and refrains from reversely rotating barrel I6 to the position shown, in Fig. 2, any material remaining in the pocket will lie therein without spilling.

I claim as my invention:

1. A dispensing package comprising a main hollow body, comprising opposite side walls, a front wall, a rear wall, and opposite end walls, a transverse opening in said front-wall near one end wall, aligned ports in said side walls near said one end wall, a measuring barrel having trunnions projecting from its opposite ends and formed with a radially opening pocket, said trunnions being journal mounted in said ports and projecting therethrough, and said pocket, in one position of said barrel relative -to said main body, registering with said transverse opening and in another relative position communicating with the interior of aid main body, said trunnions being formed with broad free ends engageable, respectively, by the thumb and finger of one hand of an operator to hold said barrel against rotary movement while, with his other hand, the operator grasps said main body'and turns the same about the axis of said barrel to vary the relative positions of said barrel and said main body whereby to shift said transverse opening and said pocket selectively into and out of registry.

2. A dispensing package comprising a main hollow body, comprising opposite side walls, a front wall, a rear wall, and opposite end walls, a transverse opening in said front wall near one end wall, aligned ports in said side Walls near said one end wall, a measuring barrel having tunnions projecting from its opposite ends and formed with a radially opening pocket, said trunnions being journal mounted in said ports and projecting therethrough, a funnel within said mai body having its large end in communication with the interior of said body and facing the other end wall and having its small end contoured, to correspond to said measuring pocket and located substantially in contact with the periphery of said barrel, said pocket, in one position of said barrel relative to said main body, registering with said transverse opening and in another relative position registering with the small end of said funnel, said trunnions being formed with broad free ends engageable, respectively, by the thumb and a finger of one hand of an operator to hold said barrel against rotary movement while, with his other hand, the operator r sps said main body and turns the same about the axis of said barrel to vary the relative positions of said barrel and said main body whereby to shift said transverse opening and the small end of said funnel selectively into registry with said pocket.

HARRY J. McDARGH, JR. 

